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The Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by the Breakthrough Prize Board in recognition of scientific advances. [1] [2] The awards are part of several "Breakthrough" initiatives founded and funded by Yuri Milner and his wife Julia Milner, along with Breakthrough Initiatives and Breakthrough Junior Challenge.
The award of $3 million, the largest award in the sciences, [2] is given to researchers who have made discoveries that extend human life. The Prize is awarded annually, beginning in 2013, with six awards given in each subsequent year. Winners are expected to give public lectures and form the committee to decide future winners. [1]
A five-year, $17 million contract for the company that administers the city’s controversial entrance exam for specialized high schools was finally approved Wednesday after a highly-anticipated ...
Helen Haskell Hobbs (born May 5, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) [1] is an American medical researcher who is professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, who won a 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2018 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine. [2]
2022 - The Keio Medical Science Prize [13] 2022 - Maria I. New International Prize for Biomedical Research [14] 2023 - Phacilitate Lifetime Achievement Award [15] 2023 - Clarivate Citation Laureates [16] 2024 - Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences [17] 2024 - Abarca Prize, for CAR-T cell therapy to fight blood cancer [18]
2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [24] 2009 - Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine [25] 2012 - Marcel Benoist Prize [26] 2013 - Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences [27] 2014 - Sir Hans Krebs Medal [28] 2014 - Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences [29] 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences [3]
In 2014 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work. [5] He has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator since 1994. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [6]
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial intelligence to “crack the code” of almost all known proteins, the “chemical tools of life.”